Release Date: September 12th, 2000

Righteous Babe released Kurt Swinghammer's album Vostok 6
in 2000, a concept record that tells the tale of Valentina Tereshkova,
the first woman in space. A combination of gorgeous, undulating
melodies, ethereal keyboard interludes, spoken word vignettes and a
penchant for Bacharach, the story is used as a spring board for
Swinghammer to tackle topics like unrequited love, the Cold War and
feminism.

Based in Toronto, Kurt Swinghammer writes songs, scores
films, composes for TV shows and commercials, produces, arranges, and
engineers recordings of his own material and of other artists, performs
as a solo act and in numerous bands, and as a session musician appears
on many CDs, including Ani's album To The Teeth.